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bitcoin is traceable. not a false equivalence at all. Search history is kept tied to a profile/semaphore/data lake and then also tied financially to the way you

bitcoin is traceable. not a false equivalence at all. Search history is kept tied to a profile/semaphore/data lake and then also tied financially to the way you pay, as well as the devices you use. When data is collected, it will be trolled through for anything and everything. Absence of data is just as unique. The only way is to blend into the masses generically. Free engines have a very hard time differentiating me from the mass of other web traffic. I compile my own browser to make it that way though, even my phone doesn't register an overnight location, and runs GrapheneOS. Importantly this should be a fundamental right of every person not just those that have the money and expertise to enforce it. The data collection shouldn't be allowed, its the equivalent of quartering a digital soldier in every home (something forbidden by the constitution). Any business funded and dependent on arbitrary preferential loans (from the printer, regardless of how indirect) is state-run and nationalized industry, and should be bound by the same constitutional requirements of government. I take my privacy seriously because of my job, and the indisputable fact that sensitive roles get targeted.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> this should be a fundamental right of every person not just those that have the money and expertise to enforce it Sure. But it isn’t, and as long as the choice is free, ad-supported and paid, privacy contractually (but not technically) guaranteed, there is an obvious answer as to where the smart money goes. And that’s before we get to search quality. A unicorn third option would be nice. But if even people who can pay for this aren't willing to, it condemns the idea of a public option in the cradle--it screams people don't value privacy in search enough to a quantifiable degree.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> this should be a fundamental right of every person not just those that have the money and expertise to enforce it Sure. But it isn’t, and as long as the choice is free, ad-supported and paid, privacy contractually (but not technically) guaranteed, there is an obvious answer as to where the smart money goes. And that’s before we get to search quality. A unicorn third option would be nice. But if even people who can pay for this aren't willing to, it condemns the idea of a public option in the cradle--it screams people don't value privacy in search enough to a quantifiable degree.